# Member of Technical Staff - Systems at Modal

> Onsite · United States · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Amodal%3A9b33ebe7-e829-4f03-97ba-5c94dbd7daf6 (read 2026-11-04).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Modal](https://alderhq.app/companies/modal)
- Location text: New York; San Francisco
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: New York; San Francisco")
- Posted: 2024-10-23 (742 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/9b33ebe7-e829-4f03-97ba-5c94dbd7daf6
- Skills listed (inferred): Rust, Docker, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $220k–$300k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 228): p25 $200k, median $233k, p75 $270k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 5, median offered wage $200k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Us

AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal.

Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now.

Our customers include category-defining companies like Ramp, Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale.

We've passed $1B in annualized run rate, up 15x from a year ago. In October 2026 we raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B valuation.

Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g.,Seaborn,Luigi), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience.

### The Role

We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the novel, high-performance systems that make up our serverless platform.

### You May Be a Fit If

You have 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code

You’ve built high-performance distributed systems at a large scale (the more battle scars, the better)

You have strong cloud skills

You have strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux kernel, file systems, containers, etc.)

You have experience with performance engineering (tell us a story of when you shaved off a few milliseconds!)

You’re able to work in person in our NYC or SF office

You’re able to participate in our on-call rotation and respond to production incidents

### Nice-to-Have

Prior experience with Rust

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Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Amodal%3A9b33ebe7-e829-4f03-97ba-5c94dbd7daf6 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.